Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), engineers developed a new liver tissue model to help reveal the stages of liver regeneration in hopes to help those individuals with liver disease, ...

The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release bile into tiny channels called bile canaliculi, which drain into the bile duct ...

As chronic liver disease becomes more widespread, researchers at Science Tokyo have developed a lab-grown organoid that replicates a regenerating liver, offering new hope for future treatments. The ...

Drug-induced toxicity is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States. Traditional drug-screening tests sometimes fail to uncover potential toxicity problems before drugs reach, or ...

Currently available animal and human liver models provide limited predictions of human drug efficacy and toxicity, primarily due to metabolic differences and the limited ability of simple 2-D models ...

A new liver-on-a-chip made from natural collagen could offer a more realistic model for drug screening, as well as for the study of pathological diseases such as liver cancer and cirrhosis. The new ...

There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a ...